I will be writing more about our experience in Jerash, but this photo shows one of the highlights where Roman Centurians demonstrated the "tortoise" and "anti-quus" etc moves that made the Roman army so powerful. When we saw it again in this historic movie, of course we had to smile. There is nothing quite like living history!

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My daughter was born and raised in Spain, and so whenever we visit the UK I take every opportunity to teach her about her heritage by visiting the wonderful museums, stately homes, parks around where I grew up - I believe there is nothing better than "learning by doing". Visiting a local school recently on a Caribbean holiday was a real eye opener for her!

I did something as a teen called 'global colleges' and went to Kenya for a month. I also went to Oxford for the Oxford Tradition and Interlochen arts academy. These were amazing programs but pricey,and long; kids are away for a month or more.

Lindsay - That's great to do! It's so important to keep up with their mother tongue as well. I've met sooo many English kids raised in Spain who could not read or write their native tongue well. Of course the same thing often happens with native Spanish speakers raised in the US.

We've thought about it at times, Jeff, but it's really a LOT of work to do a blog, so she is not really interested in doing that at this point in time.

She makes little videos all the time so we have thought about her having her own youtube channel as well.

We'll see as time goes on..so far the timing has not been right. She'd rather play in her free time instead of blog or make videos for others, ( pretty normal for a 10 year old) so we follow her lead on that.

It would also take more work for us and we are always looking for ways to spend less time online. ;)

I'm a more "learning by doing" kind of person so learning history and culture by traveling seems a much better way to me. I'm not opposed to "normal" schooling, but I think children who travel have the potential to learn much from that.